Date of Award
4-2005
Degree Name
Master of Arts
Department
History
First Advisor
Dr. Robert F. Berkhofer III
Second Advisor
Dr. Judith Stone
Third Advisor
Dr. Thomas Amos
Access Setting
Masters Thesis-Open Access
Abstract
This study will reconstruct Count Fulk Réchin of Anjou's (1068-1109) understanding of his family by using a narrative genealogy he composed and comparing it with witness lists and bequests he made in charters. Thus, it will determine who he considered members of his family for both legal and polemical purposes. This study will compare Fulk's understanding of family with other eleventh- and twelfth-century ideas of the aristocratic family, as well as historians' models of the medieval family.
Recommended Citation
Clark, Sheila, "The Understanding of Family in Medieval France: A Study of the Family of Count Fulk Réchin of Anjou" (2005). Masters Theses. 4107.
https://scholarworks.wmich.edu/masters_theses/4107